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How Music Artists Use Strategy-Driven Tactics to Rise to Fame (And What Businesses Can Learn from It)

Strategy Driven

Artists are in the business of themselves and it is exceptionally difficult work. Showcasing and creating art and then making a thriving business model out of it is not something anyone can do, especially if they don’t have a big-name label leading you through the process.

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Business Needs to Do What Government Can't

Harvard Business Review

Breakthrough requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets. We're moving towards innovation in technology, pricing, business models and partnerships," explains head of corporate responsibility management, Dorje Mundle, of the company's base-of-the-pyramid operations.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

As he tweeted , he then had a “cordial dinner with Tim” the following October, during which he “pushed hard for a $150 billion buyback.”. That was on top of a $60 billion buyback program authorized a year earlier, along with up to $40 billion in dividends. All of this adds up to profits without prosperity in the United States.